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Chapter 40 New Owner (Good Luck on Listing)

It was none other than Su Datou.

Su Datou looked around and said, "How could this ghost come from in broad daylight?"

Liu Laoer also reacted. Yes, there was a bright sun above his head, so where did the ghost come from?
"No, come out and walk a few steps so we can see if you have a shadow."

Those who came to collect debts and those who came to watch the fun all agreed. Yes, just take a few steps and take a look. It will be clear at a glance whether it is a human or a ghost.

Su Datou didn't understand what was going on and really took a few steps. Well, this really was a living person and that crooked shadow couldn't deceive anyone.

"Su Datou, why didn't you die?"

Su Datou: "Why should I die?"

"Since you are not dead, why don't you go get some wine?"

Su Datou: "From now on, I will stop drinking!"

After saying that, Su Datou turned around and went back, and with a bang, the door closed again.

Everyone looked at each other. Su Datou was not dead, but his brain seemed to be filled with water.

A moment later, the door opened again, and this time, Su Datou came in with a purse in his hand.

He walked up to Liu Laoer and said, "This is the two taels I owe you."

Then he walked up to Zhang Xiaoer and said, "Here's the twenty cents I owe you. Your peanuts are delicious. I'll buy them from you in the future."

Then, Su Datou paid back the money he owed to Aunt Li and Zhang Damazi, and then he clasped his fists in front of everyone and said, "In front of the neighbors, I, Su Dahong, will change my appearance and become a new person. From now on, everyone can come to my house to buy tea. I guarantee that I will never cheat you."

Everyone: Su Datou’s head wasn’t filled with water; he was kicked by a donkey.

After sending away the neighbors, Su Datou shook his head, brushed away the messy hair that was blocking his eyes, and walked into the tea shop.

The tea shop opened its door wide to welcome customers, but unfortunately no one came in. Instead, a big yellow dog peed in front of the door.

Su Datou went up the stairs to the second floor and stopped outside the innermost room. With a smile on his face, he said to the sturdy young man who was picking his nails at the door, "Brother Dazhuang, is the boss taking a break?"

Da Zhuang hummed: "No need to go in and answer. The boss knows everything you did and said outside just now."

Su Datou was a little embarrassed and quickly smiled: "The boss has been very kind to me, and my life belongs to the boss."

At this time, a lazy voice came from the room: "Then keep this life for me."

Su Datou fell to his knees with a thud, and started kowtowed in the direction where the sound came from.

After bowing, Su Datou got up, boiled a large pot of water, and washed himself clean.

Liu Erniang was not wrong. Two nights ago, he got himself drunk again and cried bitterly while holding an empty wine jug. As he cried, he didn't want to live anymore.

In fact, this was not the first time he had thought about dying, but it was just a thought. He was afraid of death and didn't dare to die.

It is said that alcohol makes cowards brave. After getting drunk, Su Datou suddenly was not afraid of death anymore.

He found a hemp rope, tied it to the beam, stood on it on a stool, and put his head into the noose.

At this moment, two people suddenly appeared in front of him, and Su Datou didn't even know how these two people got in.

One of them was strong and the other was weak. The strong one was Da Zhuang, and the weak one was his boss. Da Zhuang waved his hand, and the rope he had tied with great difficulty broke. He fell off the stool and lay on the ground.

He tried to raise his head, and several banknotes fell from above his head. Then, he heard the most beautiful voice in the world: "This tea shop belongs to me. Go and get the fish scale book."

He was shocked and half sober. What? This tea shop was sold?
"No, no, I can't sell it!" he said vaguely.

"Why can't it be sold?" the voice asked.

"It's a haunted house, it's unlucky, whoever buys it will be unlucky. Look at me, I became like this because I bought this tea shop." Su Datou said.

The boss said, "In that case, you should sell this place, so that you can pass the bad luck to someone else."

"No!" Su Datou shook his big head like a rattle, "You can't hurt anyone, you can't hurt anyone, I said, I won't sell it, I won't sell it!"

The boss nodded and said, "How about this? I will buy this place and hire you as the shopkeeper. You will be in charge of this place. With you here, bad luck will not fall on others. What do you think?"

This time, the remaining half of Su Datou's drunkenness was sobered up, and he woke up with a start.

He pointed at his nose and said, "What did you say? You want me to be the shopkeeper? Are you stupid? There is no business here. No one comes to buy tea. Why do we need a shopkeeper? Isn't this just a loss?"

The boss said calmly: "I have money and can afford the compensation."

Su Datou couldn't believe it. He rubbed his eyes, looked at the person in front of him carefully, and suddenly understood.

"I see. You are sick and there is no medicine to cure you. You don't have many days left to live, but you still have a lot of money. You are worried that you won't be able to spend it all before you die, so you come here to let me help you pay for it."

The boss: "Smart, then you can pay for me."

Da Zhuang threw over a purse, which was heavy with at least thirty or forty taels of silver.

"This is your one-year salary. Go and pay off all your debts and look like a decent person. Also, clean up this shop. From now on, this is my territory. If you dare to drink again, I will castrate you and make you too embarrassed to face your ancestors.

At this time, Zhao Shiqing had already left the Princess's Mansion and found an inn. The eleven of them moved in in three groups.

This is the inn closest to Prince Liang’s Mansion.

The eight kings all had palaces in the capital, but none of them were in the imperial city. These palaces were all granted by Taizu. At that time, they had all been enfeoffed, but Taizu ordered them to send their eldest sons to the capital to study.

Everyone in the world knows that these princes came to the capital as hostages, but since they are doing it under the guise of studying, they cannot make things too obvious.

So they were arranged to live near the Imperial College. At that time, the dynasty had just been established and many houses of former ministers had been confiscated. Taizu selected eight of them that were closest to the Imperial College and gave them to the eight princes.

These eight royal palaces occupied three entire streets, which were also called Royal Palace Front Street, Royal Palace Middle Street and Royal Palace Back Street.

The Prince of Liang's Mansion is located on the street in front of the palace. It takes only two cups of tea to reach the Prince of Liang's Mansion after walking out of the inn.

No one in the capital knew Zhao Shiqing except the eldest princess's family.

She and Lingbo put on the white silk jacket and blue skirt with white flowers bought from the ready-made shop, turned around, and both of them smiled.

"Are flowery skirts like this popular in the capital? I've never seen anyone wearing them like this in Liangdi."

Ling Bo smiled and said, "I heard that this weaving was made by a weaving workshop called Huaji, and it was brought over from Wu three months ago. In addition to the blue and white floral weaving, there are also red and white floral weaving, and pink and white floral weaving. They are all very beautiful and not expensive. They are very popular among the ladies of small families, but the ladies of wealthy families don't like them."

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